Signs.
Jim
09/30/2009
Isa 7:11 “Ask the LORD your God to give you a sign. It can be from deep in the world of the dead or from high up in heaven.”
Sunday evening Benjamin Arden referenced this passage and told us to ask God for a sign for our Now Cow word.
So this morning I asked God for a sign.
On the way to work I saw the most beautiful sunrise ever. I called Ana and we discussed how, to me, it is a sign of God’s continued presence in my life. We talked about how it proves God’s existence. Why otherwise would there be beauty in the world if things just happened by happenstance?
This was Sign 1.
A moment later I heard about the Tsunami that hit American Somalia yesterday. Again Ana and I discussed this. She said that it was a sign from God of the battle being waged between good and evil on earth.
This was Sign 2.
A moment later I drove by approximately 12 or so police cars on the street just off of C470. They were parked blocking a road from both ends with lights flashing blue and red. Obviously they had someone trapped and were making some sort of a bust. I thought of how this was a sign of the depravity of man. We are so steeped in evil that it takes a dozen or so policemen to confront the incident at hand.
This was Sign 3.
A few more moments later and I arrived at work and found a serious production problem was happening on a system I am responsible for. It had the potential of impacting a process just put into place and cause dissention against our team. I asked God for help resolving the problem. As it turned out it was caused by a network failure totally out of my hands. It is just another incident stemming from the complexity of data processing; another attack from Satan to make my life more miserable.
This was Sign 4.
Is this the Sign I asked God for? In Isaiah God gave Ahaz the sign of the virgin birth of Immanuel since he had not requested a sign from God. I was expecting something more relevant to my inner calling: something more relevant to Vaya Ministries or Jimanas Portraits.
Yet these are signs: of Gods beauty, Natures power, Man’s depravity, the Complexities and helplessness of life.